finance and governance committee
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Proposed $45 million cut to Denver’s budget to pay for illegal immigration crisis advances
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A panel of councilmembers has unanimously advanced Denver Mayor Mike Johnston’s proposed $45 million in budget cuts — dollars the administration intends to use to pay for its response to the city’s illegal immigration crisis. The proposed budget cuts’ next stop is the full City Council. The budget cuts include a hiring freeze and service reductions.…
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Proposal aims to make Denver City Council meetings more efficient
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Denver’s Finance and Governance Committee unanimously approved a resolution Tuesday that supporters say would make City Council meetings more efficient. If the resolution is approved by the full council, council meetings would start an hour and a half earlier than they do now with a modified order of business in an attempt to better manage…
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Money in politics: Denver campaign finance rules targeted for update
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If money could talk, its voice would arguably be deafening in politics. In the interest of added transparency for money in municipal elections, Denver election officials have proposed some changes to the city’s campaign finance rules. The proposed revisions to campaign contribution regulations in local politics would refine and add some key terms in its…
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Results are in: Denver citizen survey finds good and bad for Council consideration
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Getting a sense of what the citizens of the City and County of Denver think are key issues their elected officials should address depends on who is asked. So, Denver City Council, like many other governing bodies in other cities, often seeks survey results to help tell them what they should spend their time —…
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Denver’s $4M Target store incentive scrutinized
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Several Denver City Council members have reservations about a proposed $4 million loan to help see a Target open on the downtown 16th Street Mall. The city’s budget and management office is requesting a $4 million supplemental appropriation for the Office of Economic Development’s Business Incentive Fund. That office wants to loan the funds to…
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Denver ethics code debate focuses on meals, event tickets
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An annual $300 limit on meals and event tickets a Denver City Council member could accept from a company doing business with the city may be too low compared to current prices, one councilman said at the Council’s third meeting to discuss ethics code changes proposed by Councilman Kevin Flynn. The Finance and Governance Committee delayed…
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Business tax credit program to continue
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A business tax credit program that helped create over 2,200 new jobs and businesses to invest more than $200 million since 2013 is headed for a five-year renewal by Denver City Council. An ordinance amending the Denver Revised Municipal Code regarding the review and sunset of the Business Investment Program, established in 2013 for a…
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Want to give your councilperson a gift? Denver is still discussing how to handle that
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Denver is “completely out of step” with other major jurisdictions in at least one key ethics code area, City Councilman Kevin Flynn told some of his colleagues in explaining some “tweaks” he is proposing to the city code. At the Tuesday, Dec. 6, Finance and Governance Committee meeting, Flynn noted most jurisdictions have a dollar…
